Education & Degrees

Postdoctoral Fellow with John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Psychopathology and Development, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1998-1999

NIA Postdoctoral Fellow with Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1997-1998

NIMH Postdoctoral fellow with the Mental Health Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1995-1997

Ph.D., Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1995

M.A., Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1992

B.A., Department of Sociology, Stanford University, 1990

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Bio

Dr. Richard Miech focuses on health disparities by socioeconomic status, with a particular emphasis disparities that have emerged or widened in recent years. Examples of outcomes for which Dr. Miech has identified emerging disparities include obesity among older adolescents (see article in JAMA), cocaine use among adults (see article in Drug and Alcohol Dependence), and diabetes-related mortality among adults (see article in American Journal of Preventive Medicine). In his work Dr. Miech shows that outcomes with emerging disparities are actually quite common and tend to offset the progress that is made in reducing disparities in other outcomes. He posits that any serious effort for a long-term reduction in health disparities will require efforts a disparity prevention, a topic that currently receives little attention.

2007 Miech, Richard A., Chris Power, and William W. Eaton. 2007. “Disparities in Psychological Distress Across Education and Sex: A Longitudinal Analysis of Their Persistence Within A Cohort Over 19 Years.” Annals of Epidemiology 17(4):289-295.

2005 Miech, Richard A., Howard Chilcoat, and Valerie Harder. “The Increase in the Association of Education and Cocaine Use over the 1980s and 1990s: Evidence for a 'Historical Period' Effect.” Drug and Alcohol Dependence 79:311-320.

2003 Miech, Richard A., William Eaton, and Kung-Yee Liang. “Occupational Stratification over the Life Course: A Comparison of Occupational Trajectories Across Race and Gender during the 1980s and 1990s.” Work and Occupations 30(4):440-473.